Fine business on your "mtPaint - Simple paint tutorial"don570 ! ,which I use both mtpaint and Gimp in trying to make small pictorial "How to" files for doing
basic functions in Puppy. This to my way of thinking is the way to go to inform
those like myself who are less informed on the ins and outs of Puppy Linux.Keep up the good work ! cheers

To remove jagged edges do a gaussian blur of one or two
Return back to editing the image
Channels > Edit Image
Set all (Ctrl-A)
-copy the clipboard (Ctrl-C)

Edit > Save Clipboard > 1

Scale the image to be bigger by going to the menu...
Image > Scale

To remove jagged edges do a gaussian blur of one or two
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Return back to editing the image by going to the menu...
Channels > Edit Image

To make the polygon region bigger

Image > Scale Canvas

Right-click the paintbucket icon. Set tolerance to 200.
Using paintbucket tool fill document with a color (or gradient color)
by clicking with paintbucket tool in yellow area.
Load the previous smaller polygon by going to the menu...

Edit > Load Clipboard > 1
You may move the selection if desired.
Make sure that selection is dropped in document.

Select all (Ctrl-A)
-copy to the clipboard (Ctrl-C)
Make a new layer by going to the menu...
Edit > Paste to New Layer
Important note: Do not use the layers' menu

Save this layer to a file (PNG format with no transparency).

Now open the file in another paint program that supports PNG.
and transparency is shown by checkerboard pattern around the polygon region. Final result...

Thanks don570 for the info.I am still searching for the anomalies of the "clipboard" difficulties.After doing a fresh install of RSHs Lazy Puppy 202 ,and it's resident mtPaint 3.44.03 ,still no joy can I find I guess I will be required to continue using a combination of Gimp and mtPaint for "layering" as in simple tutorials like : [/url]http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=94701[url] but no worries as there are many roads to a destination cheers

I'm running the latest mtpaint 3.44.78.
Questions:
1) does the "create arrow", as documented in the manual, still work? If yes, how to do it? I activated the ruler tool, click to start the line, and then what to do? I pressed "A" (or "a") and nothing seems to happen.

2) the manual also talks about a cool feature of using the undo-buffer to capture multiple screenshots and save them in one go. How exactly to use this feature (if it still works in the latest mtpaint)?

Ah 007,I doubt if Ms.Moneypenny knows the ins and outs to your questions This does however validate my belief that "user friendly" tutorials could be a Godsend to Puppy users if we could solicit folks "in the know" to post some.This is no small task and since Puppy is totally about "choice" then ??
Look like we need to ping on these developers but whether or not they have the time or inclination to respond is the question? cheers

I'm running the latest mtpaint 3.44.78.
Questions:
1) does the "create arrow", as documented in the manual, still work? If yes, how to do it? I activated the ruler tool, click to start the line, and then what to do? I pressed "A" (or "a") and nothing seems to happen.

2) the manual also talks about a cool feature of using the undo-buffer to capture multiple screenshots and save them in one go. How exactly to use this feature (if it still works in the latest mtpaint)?

Just installed the same version in Slacko-5.7
The arrows do work (i never knew it existed until i saw your post)

You were doing it right, though i suspect with the default settings you couldn't see it.
Open View > Show the Settings Toolbar (or press F7) and play with the Size and Flow
Left click to start the line, then when you have the other end where you want it,
either press 'a' or 's' depending on which style of arrow you desire.

As to your second question,
it looks like it's done via File > Export Undo Images
or File > Export Undo Images (reversed)...
again depending on what you want.

I am still searching for the anomalies of the "clipboard" difficulties.

If mtPaint says "Unable to load clipboard", the simplest reason might be that there really is no clipboard to load. You cannot load a clipboard which you hadn't first saved, and you cannot import a clipboard when there is no image copied onto it from some other program.

Barring that, another reason can be that PNG support is broken. Can your copy of mtPaint save/load PNGs at all?
Breakage happens when two different versions of libpng get loaded at once: mtPaint having been linked with one, and GTK+2 with another. Output from "ldd mtpaint" will show whether this is the case.

You were doing it right, though i suspect with the default settings you couldn't see it.
Open View > Show the Settings Toolbar (or press F7) and play with the Size and Flow

Yes, this is the part that I missed. Thank you!

Quote:

As to your second question,
it looks like it's done via File > Export Undo Images
or File > Export Undo Images (reversed)...
again depending on what you want.

I understand this part, but the question is, how do I get the screenshot from within mtpaint? I am under the impression if I can take new screenshots from within mtpaint, it will cause the previous one to be shifted into "undo buffer" which can later be saved with the command you mention - but how do I get these subsequent screenshots? (the first screenshot is easy - just mtpaint -s). Unless I understood wrong?

@bill - the reason I posted here is because I know experts like CatDude and the mtpaint maintainer are reading this thread (wjaguar is Dmitry)._________________Fatdog64, Slacko and Puppeee user. Puppy user since 2.13.
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